Posted on 06/26/2014 7:06:44 AM PDT by navysealdad
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has limited a president's power to make temporary appointments to fill high-level government jobs.
The court said Thursday that President Barack Obama exceeded his authority when he invoked the Constitution's provision on recess appointments to fill slots on the National Labor Relations Board in 2012.
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He’ll do what he feels like anyway.
I think Lincoln ignored a Supreme Court decision against him discarding Habeas Corpus.
Obama already planning a workaround solution no doubt.
Jay Sekulow on FOX now saying the same thing.
By a unanimous vote, the Supreme Court agreed that the Senate was not in recess, holding that it’s up to both houses of Congress to define when they’re in session or in recess. As a result of the decision, the Senate can frustrate a president’s ability to make recess appointments simply by holding periodic pro forma sessions, a tactic used in recent years by both political parties.
The question, the court said, is whether the Senate had the capacity to act. It found that during the recess at issue, the court did have that power.
The stakes were no longer as high as they were when the case first came to the Supreme Court, given that the Senate has now agreed that a president’s nominations need only 51 votes for confirmation.
Wonderful.
Now the question really is, (it shouldn’t be but is): what are we going to do about it?
Will his recess appointments be voided? They should be, but WILL they?
I strongly suspect the following will now take place: the Obama administration will merely ignore this ruling and take no action to remove the recess appointments in question from office.
Then, everyone on the Hill will take precisely ZERO action to remove the appointments themselves. If they even try they will prove themselves “racist”.
And so, life under the regime goes on. Case closed! Thanks for your opinion on the matter Supreme Court, it was neat! Maybe next time he won’t do it again, maybe he will though. After all, again, no one will stop him; no one will force him to answer for his crimes.
Go back to watching your American Idol America! Nothing to see here!
That's my question - this would be large.
Hoping that somewhere along the line, rulings and Congressional acts will force major reversals and undo much of what Obama has done.
In a popular quotation that is probably apocryphal, President Andrew Jackson reportedly responded: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!” This derives from Jackson’s consideration on the case in a letter to John Coffee, “...the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate,” (that is, the Court’s opinion because it had no power to enforce its edict).[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia
Hoping that somewhere along the line, rulings and Congressional acts will force major reversals and undo much of what Obama has done.
Slanted headlines anybody?
He never had the authority in the first place. The Supremes just affirmed he was acting outside of his authority.
All of the rules they made are void, and I want whatever salary etc they were paid returned.
Every damned one of the recess appointments should immediately resign, and every damned “order” issued by these illegal appointments must be immediately revoked.
Exactly. See my post 29.
Lincoln definitely ignored a US Supreme Court decision against him, in which they said his actions were UNCONSTITUTIONAL. And he was a Republican, I believe ... :-) ...
“..........Obama exceeded his authority when he invoked the Constitution’s provision on recess appointments.......”....
And the penalty for that is..................?
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